Chapter Summaries

Shi Xuan studied the sect’s Immortal arrays and tribulation-crossing methods before Lin Luo invited him to tea and guided him in swordsmanship. Their spar left him having quickly learned Sword Qi Like Silk, and he departed after a rewarding discussion of Daoist magic.

• Shi Xuan examined the Nine Heavens All-Seal Myriad Thunder Immortal Array, the Cold Light Heaven-Splitting Earth-Cracking Immortal Array, and the tribulation-crossing methods and secret treasures in the jade slips.
• Lin Luo invited Shi Xuan to share tea and discuss Daoist magic, then praised his sword strike and spoke with him about swordsmanship.
• Lin Luo taught Shi Xuan the key points of Sword Qi Like Silk and challenged him to spar using only swordsmanship.
• Shi Xuan defended himself against Lin Luo’s many silver sword lights and quickly mastered Sword Qi Like Silk, using a thread-thin purple sword light to block her strike.
• Shi Xuan thanked Lin Luo, discussed Daoist magic with her, and prepared to take his leave.

Shi Xuan returned to his cave dwelling after achieving Primordial Spirit, shared his knowledge of Merit and Heavenly Tribulations with Lin Luo, and began studying the Treasure Record’s advanced cultivation methods. He planned to prepare carefully for his next steps while avoiding revealing his identity to the Half-step Golden Immortal observing the Great Yuyu World.

• Shi Xuan told Lin Luo that Merit from a Great Thousand World could reduce the power of its first two Heavenly Tribulations, and he answered her questions about Merit.
• Shi Xuan decided that if he reincarnated, he would do so in another Great Thousand World and considered using Merit Points to obtain the Ruyi Immortal Binding Rope outside the sect.
• Shi Xuan returned to his cave dwelling, where Ao Gu and Qing Suo recognized that he had achieved Primordial Spirit.
• Shi Xuan gave Ao Gu the materials he needed to condense a Demon Core and advised him about the challenges of advancing afterward.
• Shi Xuan studied the latter half of the Treasure Record, including the Yin-Yang Mixed Cavern Divine Light and its four other Immortal Techniques.
• Shi Xuan learned that fusing a section of white bone into the Great Cycle of Yin-Yang Life and Death could speed his cultivation of Six Paths of Reincarnation and might let him contend with a Yang Spirit True Person.

Shi Xuan used secret methods and black-and-white moral Qi to advance his natal Spirit Tools into Dharma Treasures, then sacrificed the Life and Death Banner to strengthen his Yin-Yang Daoist Magic. After twelve years of cultivation, the Six Paths of Reincarnation formed as an Immortal technique, bringing the volume to a close.

• Shi Xuan learned that black-and-white moral Qi could greatly shorten the time needed for his natal Spirit Tools to advance, and he decided to complete that advancement before traveling to the Tongtian Great World.
• Forty-nine years later, Shi Xuan fused the moral Qi into the Taiji Diagram and Yin-Yang Two Qi Bottle, advancing both into Dharma Treasures and causing a celestial phenomenon noticed by cultivators across several sects.
• Guiyuanzi, Zhu Yanzi, and Yama Heavenly Son sent congratulations to the Penglai Sect, while Old Ancestor Blood River and White Bone True Person recognized Shi Xuan and reacted with shock and anger.
• Shi Xuan welcomed Zhou Dielan, who had advanced to a mid-grade Golden Core, then returned to seclusion and sacrificed the Life and Death Banner to raise the Great Cycle of Yin-Yang Life and Death to the ninth tier.
• Twelve years later, Shi Xuan combined the ninth-tier Daoist Magic with the segment of white bone, and the Six Paths of Reincarnation formed as an Immortal technique inscription on his Primordial Spirit.

After sixty-one years of secluded cultivation, Shi Xuan traveled to the Tongtian Great World to seek treasures and the complete Circumstellar Star Dou Sword Art. At the Fuyou Trading Company, he learned that obtaining the complete sword art required completing a dangerous task set by a mysterious woman connected to Kong Ji.

• Shi Xuan inspected his altered Six Paths Wheel, assessed his cultivation progress, and decided to visit the Tongtian Great World.
• Shi Xuan exchanged his Merit Points for temporary use of the Ruyi Immortal Binding Rope and passed through the Earth Membrane into the Tongtian Great World.
• Mu Yunqing approached Shi Xuan at the entrance, but he declined her offer of help and flew to a Fuyou Trading Company branch.
• Shi Xuan purchased a Kun Peng Stomach and asked whether the company sold items of profound mystery, but its remaining stock held nothing he needed.
• Shi Xuan asked Zhou Sen about the Circumstellar Star Dou Sword Art and learned that its mysterious owner would sell the complete version only to someone who completed her task.
• Zhou Sen warned Shi Xuan that the task was so difficult that many Yang Spirit True Persons had failed or died, and Shi Xuan asked how to contact the woman.

Shi Xuan learned that a woman wanted him to rescue her husband, who had been sealed beneath Feilai Academy by an immortal talisman. Though she warned that the task was dangerous, Shi Xuan considered taking it on and learned he would first need to break the dynastic fortunes protecting the seal.

• Shi Xuan asked Zhou Sen for a catalogue of Fuyou Trading Company's sword arts and cultivation methods so he could search for clues to the Two Forms Dao Destroying Sword.
• The veiled woman approached Shi Xuan and warned that her request could cost him his life.
• She explained that her husband had been trapped beneath Feilai Academy by Ancient Buddha Yuantong, who had reinforced an immortal talisman with the Yuanmang Great World's dynastic fortune.
• The woman said her father had forbidden Heavenly Immortals from intervening, but would not interfere with anyone below that level who attempted a rescue.
• She revealed that the Yuanmang Great World was now ruled by Human Immortals and Great Demons seeking merit through dynasties, and that Shi Xuan would have to break their fortunes before reaching the seal beneath Feilai Academy.

Shi Xuan accepted Kong Ran’s request to rescue her husband Jian Tonghui in exchange for the Circumstellar Star Dou Sword Art and other secrets, then prepared to leave. Bodhisattva Wuyan planned to use Shi Xuan to reach the immortal talisman first, while Qing Lang recruited Chen Chang and Mu Yunqing for his own enterprise.

• Shi Xuan agreed to rescue Kong Ran’s husband and verified that her Circumstellar Star Dou Sword Art was genuine before accepting her secret arts and information about the Yuanmang Great World.
• Kong Ran told Shi Xuan that a Bodhisattva had already accepted the task, and Shi Xuan delayed his departure to refine secret treasures and seek references for a new Sword Qi divine ability.
• After Shi Xuan left, Bodhisattva Wuyan learned from Zhou Sen that he had accepted the task and decided to enlist Great Demon Qing Lang to intercept him.
• Chen Chang introduced Qing Lang to Mu Yunqing, and Qing Lang promised that Merit from his planned enterprise could help her survive her Heavenly Tribulation after reincarnation.

Qing Lang recruited Chen Chang and Mu Yunqing to help him ambush Shi Xuan, while Shi Xuan refined the Heaven and Earth Mountain River Diagram into a Grotto-heaven Magic Treasure. As Shi Xuan approached the Yuanmang Great World, Qing Lang and the couple blocked his way and demanded that he serve Qing Lang for a hundred years.

• Qing Lang asked Chen Chang and Mu Yunqing to help him eliminate Shi Xuan, and they agreed after recognizing their former acquaintance as the target.
• Shi Xuan used Phoenix Blood, Kun Peng Stomach, and other materials to refine the Heaven and Earth Mountain River Diagram, creating a Grotto-heaven Magic Treasure.
• Shi Xuan traveled through the void toward the Yuanmang Great World using the Two Realms Crossing Technique.
• Qing Lang, Chen Chang, and Mu Yunqing ambushed Shi Xuan near the world, with Chen Chang and Mu Yunqing blocking his retreat.
• Qing Lang identified himself as the Qing Lang King and offered to spare Shi Xuan if he served him for a hundred years.

Shi Xuan killed Mu Yunqing and Chen Chang with the Six Paths of Reincarnation, then Qing Lang mistook him for a Heavenly Immortal and swore to serve him for a thousand years. Qing Lang departed for the Yuanmang Great World after warning Shi Xuan that an unknown intermediary had sent word that he planned to seek refuge with the Imperial Court and seize Merit.

• Shi Xuan used the Six Paths of Reincarnation to destroy Mu Yunqing’s Primordial Spirit and reduce her body to bones.
• Shi Xuan pointed at Chen Chang and dispersed his Primordial Spirit before he could fight back.
• Qing Lang froze in terror at the Heavenly Human aura and, after Shi Xuan’s aura changed, became convinced Shi Xuan was a Heavenly Immortal.
• Shi Xuan demanded a thousand years of service, and Qing Lang swore an oath to serve him and never harm him.
• Shi Xuan sent Qing Lang away, and Qing Lang warned him that an unknown source had claimed he planned to seek refuge with the Imperial Court and seize Merit.

Shi Xuan entered the Yuanmang Great World seeking the Circumstellar Star Dou Sword Art and captured Wuyan, the monk who had arranged for Qing Lang King to pursue him. After Wuyan offered a method for finding the immortal talisman, Shi Xuan killed him and entered the world.

• Shi Xuan inspected Chen Chang and Mu Yunqing's Storage Bags, then decided to destroy Mu Yunqing's cultivation art and keep Chen Chang's for the sect.
• Shi Xuan learned that Yuanmang Great World suited body cultivation and planned to reincarnate there to strengthen his fleshly body while seeking the Circumstellar Star Dou Sword Art.
• Shi Xuan concealed himself in the void as Wuyan arrived at the Yuanmang Great World and stepped into its Earth Membrane.
• Shi Xuan trapped Wuyan in the Heaven and Earth Mountain River Diagram and confirmed that Wuyan had sent Qing Lang King after him.
• Wuyan offered a method to uncover the immortal talisman, but Shi Xuan searched his soul, bound him with a golden rope, and killed him.
• Shi Xuan used a secret art to enter the Yuanmang Great World.

The chapter follows the Imperial Court’s persecution of Buddhist and Daoist practitioners, the destruction of Daohua Sect, and Gu Canghai and Wei Peining’s flight to Jiyi Town. Their child is born amid extraordinary celestial signs and declares himself supreme, leaving the watchers stunned.

• Constable Ren arrested Buddhist monks and persuaded villagers that martial arts surpassed Buddhist and Daoist cultivation, while the young Huiyuan and his master fled south after the monks were executed.
• King Zhennan’s forces destroyed Daohua Sect, and Wei Kuanfu and Madam Wei stayed behind so Gu Canghai could escort the pregnant Wei Peining to safety.
• Gu Canghai killed Mao Shaowu after sending Wei Peining ahead, then reunited with her and traveled with her to Jiyi Town.
• The Fang family sheltered Wei Peining and Gu Canghai, but Eldest Master Fang and Young Master Fang secretly arranged to report them to the authorities.
• As Wei Peining gave birth, purple light and lightning filled the sky, and the infant appeared on a Golden Bridge before declaring, “Above heaven and below earth, I alone am supreme!”

Shi Xuan reincarnated as Gu Canghai and Wei Peining’s child, revealed his identity, and arranged for the family to remain nearby before moving to a larger city. The Fang family’s plot faltered after the ambushers vanished, leaving Eldest Master Fang and Eldest Young Master Fang waiting anxiously for news.

• Shi Xuan used the Reincarnation Disk to overcome the memories of countless past lives and take control of his newborn body.
• Shi Xuan destroyed the martial artists ambushing outside, including the Divine Intent Master, and greeted Gu Canghai and Wei Peining as his parents.
• Gu Canghai and Wei Peining accepted Shi Xuan’s reincarnation, and he told them to stay for a few days before moving to a prosperous city.
• Shi Xuan identified himself as a Daoist and chose the name Shi Xuan, then asked to sleep in his own little bed.
• Old Master Fang warned his family to abandon their schemes, while Eldest Master Fang and Eldest Young Master Fang worried that Deputy General Zhang had failed to act.

Shi Xuan sensed that Huiyuan had been terrified, while Jici and Huiyuan faced a powerful Demonic Beast in a ruined temple at the edge of the Savage Giant Forest. Jici sacrificed himself in a desperate attack to give Huiyuan a chance to escape.

• Master Fang and Eldest Young Master Fang returned to their rooms after deciding not to reveal Shi Xuan’s whereabouts, and Eldest Young Master Fang later dreamed of being killed by an evil ghost and died in terror.
• Shi Xuan sensed Huiyuan’s terror through the mark he had placed on him and recalled choosing Wei Peining’s unborn child as a reincarnation with powerful destiny.
• Jici told Huiyuan about the ruined temple he had built and regretted that his crippled condition had forced them to travel through the Savage Giant Forest.
• A green-robed Demonic Beast entered the temple, revealed that it wanted to eat Jici and Huiyuan, and dismissed Jici’s threat to self-detonate.
• Jici used his prayer beads to immobilize the Demonic Beast briefly, hurled Huiyuan outside, and ignited his remaining Arhat Golden Body in a desperate bid to kill the beast.

Huiyuan prayed for help as Jici faced the demonic beast, and an Infinite Starlight Buddha appeared, saved Jici, and gave Huiyuan a mission to seek Liuli Buddha Lord’s immortal talisman at Feilai Academy. After Jici recovered and heard Huiyuan’s account, he recognized the scripture as genuine Buddhist Dharma but remained struck by the mystery surrounding the Buddhist Sect’s decline.

• Huiyuan was immobilized by the man in green’s demonic aura and prayed for Buddha to save Jici.
• The Infinite Starlight Buddha appeared, destroyed the man in green, healed Jici, and gave Huiyuan the Future Star Constellation Dao and a mantra.
• The Buddha instructed Huiyuan to go to Feilai Academy and obtain Liuli Buddha Lord’s immortal talisman from its back mountain.
• Jici awoke, heard Huiyuan’s account, and questioned whether the apparition had truly been a Buddha or a deceiver.
• Jici recognized the Future Star Constellation Dao as authentic and discovered that his cultivation had recovered to the consciousness realm, though his Arhat Golden Body was gone.

Shi Xuan sent Huiyuan to attempt to retrieve an Immortal Talisman while he and Gu Canghai and Wei Peining left Jiyi Town. At Ten Thousand Peaks Ridge, Fang Jing attacked the Wu Family, but a striking man and woman arrived at the Daoist temple.

• Jici accepted Huiyuan’s claim that the Buddha had descended and sent him to Feilai Academy to seek the Immortal Talisman.
• Shi Xuan reflected on Wuyan’s uncertain plan for drawing the Immortal Talisman and admitted that he had deceived Huiyuan about its power against heartfire.
• Shi Xuan told Gu Canghai and Wei Peining that he had dealt with Deputy General Zhang, erased the town’s memories of them, and left Jiyi Town with them overnight.
• At Ten Thousand Peaks Ridge, constables brought Daoist cultivators, including the Wu Family, to a ruined temple during a storm.
• Fang Jing sealed Wu Enxiu’s acupoints and tried to take her to the rear courtyard while the constables restrained her family.
• A man and a woman entered the temple as Fang Jing was about to drag Wu Enxiu away.

Gu Canghai and Wei Peining rescued the Wu family and imprisoned cultivators by killing Fang Jing and his constables, then agreed to teach the Wu family Daoist magic while keeping their identities hidden. As the group rested in the temple, Shi Xuan sensed a crowd of cultivators approaching Ten Thousand Peaks Ridge.

• Fang Jing tried to flee, but Gu Canghai killed him and more than ten constables with a single sword strike.
• Gu Canghai freed Wu Zhengqi, Wu Enxiu, Yang Yanfei, and Wu Enming, who thanked him and asked to join his group.
• Gu Canghai explained that he and Wei Peining could not take the Wu family along, but promised to teach them Daoist magic and advised them to live discreetly in small towns or the countryside.
• Wu Enxiu and Wu Zhengqi praised Shi Xuan, mistaking the infant for an unusually composed young master.
• Shi Xuan sensed dozens of flight lights heading toward Ten Thousand Peaks Ridge and observed that the area had become a busy thoroughfare.

Shi Xuan watched three Martial Saints battle Golden Cudgel Arhat near Ten Thousand Peaks Ridge while Gu Canghai and Wei Peining recognized their parents’ killer, Guan Kong. As the temple faced destruction from the battle’s aftermath, Shi Xuan prepared to intervene, but a powerful will from the Dragon Vein locked onto him.

• Shi Xuan suppressed his fortune as Golden Cudgel Arhat fled toward Ten Thousand Peaks Ridge, pursued by three Martial Saints.
• The Black Dragon, White Tiger, and Azure Bird Martial Manifestations joined forces against Golden Cudgel Arhat, and their battle tore away Broken Dao Temple’s roof.
• Gu Canghai and Wei Peining recognized White-browed Giant Tiger Guan Kong as the man who had led the attack that killed their parents, but they suppressed their urge for revenge and resolved to cultivate.
• Zhuo Tiannan arrived with martial path Cultivators and taunted Golden Cudgel Arhat by claiming his father, King Zhennan, was nearby.
• Zhuo Tiannan’s taunt distracted Golden Cudgel Arhat, letting Guan Kong’s White Tiger strike him and send him falling near the temple.
• As the Martial Saints’ attacks threatened everyone in the temple, Shi Xuan prepared to block the aftermath, but a will from the Dragon Vein locked onto him.

Shi Xuan and King Zhennan Zhuo Yiping clashed over Ten Thousand Peaks Ridge, each unleashing power that devastated the surrounding land before they reached an unspoken truce. Shi Xuan left with Gu Canghai’s group, while Zhuo Yiping concealed the battle’s true nature; later, the group reached a remote mountain where the wounded Golden Cudgel Arhat appeared close to death.

• Shi Xuan redirected the three Martial Saints’ attacks, and King Zhennan Zhuo Yiping struck at him with a dragon-vein-powered fist.
• Shi Xuan’s Four Symbols World Destroying Sword met Zhuo Yiping’s Fist Intent, shattering the surrounding mountains and leaving a vast crater.
• Shi Xuan and Zhuo Yiping stopped fighting, and Gu Canghai carried Wei Peining, the Wu Family, the monks, and the unconscious Golden Cudgel Arhat away.
• Zhuo Yiping struck the three Martial Saints with Fist Intent, making them forget the clash, and a three-day storm filled the crater with water.
• Gu Canghai’s group arrived at a remote mountain in Blue Marsh Province, where the monks gathered around the gravely wounded Golden Cudgel Arhat.

Ji Yong recovered from his wounds, thanked Shi Xuan and his family, and led willing monks into secular life after receiving their advice to endure in hiding. Six years later, Shi Xuan prepared to begin Body Tempering, Gu Canghai set out to seek a breakthrough, and Qing Lang prayed for guidance from his Heavenly Immortal master, whose will finally descended into his heart.

• Ji Yong recounted his life to novice Guang Xing, then realized that Shi Xuan had healed his injuries and restored his golden body.
• Ji Yong asked Shi Xuan for guidance about Buddhism's decline, and Shi Xuan and Gu Canghai vanished after leaving the words “Hide claws and fangs, endure.”
• Ji Yong chose to return to secular life and invited the monks to follow him, while the Wu family set out to cultivate in seclusion with Gu Canghai's teachings.
• After six years in Longquan County, Shi Xuan announced that he would begin Body Tempering, and Gu Canghai decided to travel in search of a high-grade Golden Core breakthrough.
• Qing Lang prepared to resume competing for Merit and prayed to his Heavenly Immortal master; after seven days of fasting and worship, the master's will descended into his heart.

Shi Xuan gave Qing Lang the Cold Light Heaven-Splitting Earth-Cracking Immortal Array deployment method so Qing Lang could prepare to seize a dynasty’s fortune and withstand a Second Tribulation Earth Immortal. Qing Lang left to seek an ice-aspect Pure Yang Magic Treasure and then pursued Xiong Pi, calling for him to stop.

• Shi Xuan answered Qing Lang’s plea and approved his plan to seize a dynasty’s fortune for Merit.
• After Qing Lang revealed that a Second Tribulation Earth Immortal threatened him, Shi Xuan passed on the Cold Light Heaven-Splitting Earth-Cracking Immortal Array deployment method, but withheld the Immortal Talisman refinement method.
• Shi Xuan ended the connection with Qing Lang and resumed tempering his body.
• Qing Lang descended from the mountain as the little demons speculated about his joyful expression and the secret meeting.
• Qing Lang waited outside an immortal mountain in Dongjun Province, then chased after Xiong Pi and called for him to stop.

Qing Lang traded for Xiong Pi’s Profound Ice Two Extremes Ring and recruited him to help establish a base at White Sand Mountain, where Qing Lang completed the Cold Light Heaven-Splitting Earth-Cracking Immortal Array. A year later, Shi Xuan finished absorbing Human Immortal Body Tempering Soup and sensed several experts entering the mountain range.

• Qing Lang exchanged the Supreme Unity Immortal Slaying Sword for Xiong Pi’s Profound Ice Two Extremes Ring and other materials after the two demons swore oaths to the Liuli Buddha Lord.
• Qing Lang revealed that an existence had bestowed an Immortal Array method on him and invited Xiong Pi to join him at White Sand Mountain.
• Qing Lang gathered materials and arranged the Cold Light Heaven-Splitting Earth-Cracking Immortal Array, placing the Profound Ice Two Extremes Ring at its array eye.
• One year later, Xiong Pi arrived at White Sand Mountain and swore with Qing Lang not to kill each other while they remained together.
• Shi Xuan drank Human Immortal Body Tempering Soup and absorbed its medicinal power through nine rounds of the Ten Dragons Subduing Demons Fist.
• Shi Xuan sensed several experts entering the mountain range thousands of li away.